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Excull pated a lot of the confederacy and it's remarkable how widespread that was and contemporary and modern that was. how much does history, the bake teaching of history in america have to change? >> oh, it has to be systematically transformed. one of the things that we didn't have happen here, we didn't have our own version of the deannouncification program, a decon federation program. instead we had mass amnesty. then we had, we get these kind of monuments coming up during the rise of jim crowe particularly after the brown decision. so we get this heralding of and this narrative of souther...

Champagne out of slippers and stuff. in europe there's obviously been two years of figuring out, first horrified that trump got elected. then figuring out, how do we manage this and deal with it? now that trump has suffered an electoral repudiation in the midterms, going forward, does that stiffen europe's spine? do they feel more forceful and aggressive about trump or do they look at him and think that he's even more volatile and dangerous and have to handle him more with kid gloves? how do they deal with the changing political circumstances in the u.s. as it relates to trump's role abroad? >...

Perspective, and different impression of that. >> we should also point out there are actually tapes of the president talking with michael cohen about these payments that he denies he knew anything about. we should point out, harry, cohen has not worked out a cooperation deal with anyone at this point. he's giving investigators information they need and he says he's doing it on his own volition, not as part of an arrangement. >> that's right. and that's actually not surprising. that typically before the government wants to offer a cooperation agreement, they need to spend a lot of time with the...

Behind this, whoever it is, whether it's the research agency or other people had a very good sense of the divides and polarization in american society. and the truth is just kind of watch the news and see what people are angry about. what i saw in looking at the texts of hundreds of these posts and following those bread crumbs back to their sources that the russians were looking at the same things, that the same that americans were looking and engaging with on social media. >> so is this like a four or five bookies when they bet the spreads for a football game, sitting together, figuring out, ...

Government that are consumers of our products can ask the collectors to unmask. the unmasking resides with those who collected the information. and so if mike rogers' folks collected something and they sent it to me in a report and it says u.s. person number 1, and it's important for the fbi to know who that is, our request will go back to them. the white house can make similar requests of the fbi or of nsa but they don't on their own collect so they can't on their own unmask. do i have that about right? >> yes. >> i guess what i'm getting at, director comey, you say it's vital, critical, indi...